Diego Mendoza-Moyers: The data center building boom has officially reached El Paso. Leaders in Doña Ana County next door to El Paso last week approved an incentive deal enabling a $165 billion data center campus and power generation facility that a collection of companies will develop in New Mexico just north of the Santa Teresa Port of Entry.
I’m Diego Mendoza-Moyers, a reporter with El Paso Matters, and I’ve been following this controversial data center proposal out in Santa Teresa, which could have a long-lasting impact on our region. It’s created more fervor and pushback from locals than almost any other project in recent memory.
In just a minute, we’ll go to my conversation with Pablo Villa, assistant Editor at El Paso Matters, where we talk about the recent vote and different aspects of Project Jupiter. But, Pablo and I spoke before we learned that the tech giants OpenAI and Oracle are the companies behind this data center campus. Which makes sense, given the project’s massive cost. But, just keep in mind our conversation happened before we learned those details…